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Robert Eugene Brashers was an American serial killer and mass murderer who committed at least eight murders in Kentucky, Missouri, South Carolina and Texas between 1990 and 1998.
Notable Deaths on January 19
1999 — Robert Eugene Brashers
American serial killer and rapist (born 1958)
January 19 has 100 recorded notable deaths across history, from 520 to 2026. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Notable Deaths
100 source records
520 – 2026
Today in history
Major events on January 19
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- 1946 General Douglas MacArthur establishes the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo to try Japanese war criminals. Source
- 1829 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust: The First Part of the Tragedy receives its premiere performance. Source
- 649 Conquest of Kucha: The forces of Kucha surrender after a forty-day siege led by Tang dynasty general Ashina She'er, establishing Tang control over the northern Tarim Basin in Xinjiang. Source
- 1862 American Civil War: Battle of Mill Springs: The Confederacy suffers its first significant defeat in the conflict. Source
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Roosevelt in 1939, Douglas was confirmed at the age of 40, becoming one of the youngest justices appointed to the court.
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Donald Clarence Simpson was an American film producer, screenwriter, and actor, known for his work on blockbuster films of the 1980s and 1990s.
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Proudhon became a member of the French Parliament after the Revolution of 1848, whereafter he referred to himself as a federalist.
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Owing largely to the powerful position of his father Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, Henry took a prominent part in court life, and served as a soldier both in France and in Scotland.
More major people who died on January 19
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1980
William O. Douglas
American lawyer and jurist, US Supreme Court associate justice (born 1898)
William Orville Douglas was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1939 to 1975.
1996
Don Simpson
American actor, producer, and screenwriter (born 1943)
Donald Clarence Simpson was an American film producer, screenwriter, and actor, known for his work on blockbuster films of the 1980s and 1990s. Simpson entered the film industry in the 1970s and worked at Warner Bros.
1865
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
French philosopher and politician (born 1809)
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon was a French anarchist, socialist, philosopher, and economist who founded mutualist philosophy and is considered by many to be the "father of anarchism".
1547
Henry Howard
Earl of Surrey, English poet (born 1516)
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, was an English nobleman, politician and poet.
2013
Earl Weaver
American baseball player and manager (born 1930)
Earl Sidney Weaver was an American professional baseball manager, author, and television color commentator. Weaver played in minor league baseball as a second baseman from 1948 to 1960.
1729
William Congreve
English playwright and poet (born 1670)
William Congreve was an English playwright, satirist and poet. He played a major role in shaping English comedy, and is often regarded by literary critics as one of the greatest playwrights of the Restoration period.
2007
Hrant Dink
Turkish-Armenian journalist and activist (born 1954)
Hrant Dink was a Turkish-Armenian journalist, founder and editor-in-chief of Agos.
2000
Amatu'l-Bahá Rúhíyyih Khánum
a Baháʼí Faith Hand of the Cause of God and wife of Shoghi Effendi (born 1910)
Amatu'l-Bahá Rúhíyyih Khánum was an American-born Canadian Hand of the Cause of the Baháʼí Faith.
2015
Michel Guimond
Canadian lawyer and politician (born 1953)
Michel Guimond was a Canadian politician. From 1987 to 1993 he served as a city councillor in Boischatel, Quebec. After this, he ran in the 1993 federal election for the Bloc Québécois.
1636
Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger
Flemish painter (born1561)
Marcus Gheeraerts was a Flemish artist working at the Tudor court, described as "the most important artist of quality to work in England in large-scale between Eworth and van Dyck".
2006
Anthony Franciosa
American actor (born 1928)
Anthony George Franciosa, also billed as Tony Franciosa, was an American actor.
1869
Carl Reichenbach
German chemist and philosopher (born 1788)
Karl Ludwig Freiherr von Reichenbach, known as Carl Reichenbach, was a German chemist, geologist, metallurgist, naturalist, industrialist and philosopher, and a member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences.
1984
Max Bentley
Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1920)
Maxwell Herbert Lloyd Bentley was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who played for the Chicago Black Hawks, Toronto Maple Leafs, and New York Rangers in the National Hockey League (NHL) as part of a professional…
2017
Miguel Ferrer
American actor (born 1955)
Miguel José Ferrer was an American actor. His breakthrough role was as Bob Morton in the 1987 film RoboCop. Other film roles include Harbinger in Hot Shots!
1990
Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
Indian guru and mystic (born 1931)
Osho, also known as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, Acharya Rajneesh, and simply Rajneesh, was an Indian godman, and founder of the new religious movement, the Rajneesh movement.
2012
Sarah Burke
Canadian skier (born 1982)
Sarah Jean Burke was a Canadian freestyle skier who was a pioneer of the superpipe event. She was a five-time Winter X Games gold medallist, and won the world championship in the halfpipe in 2005.
2012
Rudi van Dantzig
Dutch ballet dancer and choreographer (born 1933)
Rudi van Dantzig was a Dutch choreographer, company director, and writer. He was a pivotal figure in the rise to world renown of Dutch ballet in the latter half of the twentieth century.
2013
Stan Musial
American baseball player and manager (born 1920)
Stanley Frank Musial, nicknamed "Stan the Man", was an American professional baseball player.
1930
Frank P. Ramsey
British mathematician, philosopher and economist (born 1903)
Frank Plumpton Ramsey was a British philosopher, mathematician, and economist who made major contributions to all three fields before his death at the age of 26.